“Assume A Rape Victim Is Lying” & Other Tips From The Norfolk, VA Police Dept

The police department in Norfolk, Virginia, just last week updated their classifications of sexual assaults, changing such claims from “unfounded” by default to acknowledging how they might be valid. Previously, official policy instructed officers to always automatically assume a rape victim was lying. This change came about after complaints by a 22-year-old woman who reported a sexual assault to police, only to be told, “If we find out you’re lying, this will be a felony charge.” [Think Progress, Raw Story]

The best-paid women in the S&P 500 earned 18 percent less then their male counterparts, according to new data compiled by Bloomberg. [Bloomberg]

A 92-year-old black woman filed a lawsuit claiming her constitutional rights have been violated just hours after Republican North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a voter ID law. Rosanell Eaton, whose lawsuit was filed by the NAACP, has a current driver’s license but the name on it doesn’t exactly match the name on her birth certificate or her voter ID card. The suit argues that getting all three documents to use the same name will be prohibitively time consuming and expensive. [Raw Story]